Knights & Equipment

Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu)

MULRAH

Lands (36)

• 1x Alpine Meadow
• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Castle Embereth
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Lorehold Campus
• 4x Mountain
• 11x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Silverquill Campus
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 1x Stone Quarry
• 1x Sulfurous Mire
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tournament Grounds
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

Knights ("Utility") (8)

• 1x Basri's Lieutenant
• 1x Blacklance Paragon
• 1x Dread Rider
• 1x Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Oathsworn Knight
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Venerable Knight

Fun (7)

• 1x Brimstone Trebuchet
• 1x Deathbringer Thoctar
• 1x Gift of Doom
• 1x Knights' Charge
• 1x Lifelink
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Sunbond

Card Draw (8)

• 1x Acclaimed Contender
• 1x Armored Skyhunter
• 1x Avarice Amulet
• 1x Foulmire Knight
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Stormfist Crusader
• 1x Zephyr Boots

Equipment (8)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Blazing Sunsteel
• 1x Crystal Slipper
• 1x Heirloom Blade
• 1x Shining Armor
• 1x Sigiled Sword of Valeron
• 1x Steelclaw Lance
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

Knights ("Go Wide") (8)

• 1x Belle of the Brawl
• 1x Embereth Skyblazer
• 1x Inspiring Veteran
• 1x Silverwing Squadron
• 1x Syr Alin, the Lion's Claw
• 1x The Circle of Loyalty
• 1x Valiant Knight
• 1x Wintermoor Commander

Removal (8)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Dire Tactics
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Joust
• 1x Path of Mettle  ^Flip
• 1x Syr Carah, the Bold

Commander (1)

Equippers (8)

• 1x Akiri, Fearless Voyager
• 1x Cabal Paladin
• 1x Dauntless Bodyguard
• 1x Fervent Champion
• 1x Koll, the Forgemaster
• 1x Relic Seeker
• 1x Silverblade Paladin
• 1x Taj-Nar Swordsmith

Ramp (8)

• 1x Boros Cluestone
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Forging the Tyrite Sword
• 1x Goldvein Pick
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Mardu Banner
• 1x Opaline Unicorn
• 1x Pillar of Origins

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This deck continues my cycle of budget tribal decks. The tribal theme here is knights, and you'll do just fine if you focus on getting your knights out as soon as possible. The mechanical subtheme is equipment and (to a much lesser extent) auras. If you can get just the right combination of auras and equipment out, you can get infinite life or maybe even do infinite damage, but this deck is not optimized to ensure that happens in every game. The commander is Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale , and--unlike many of my other decks--this is the only option here.

Deck Structure

This deck has been built using the 8x8 method. Half the modules fulfill typical functions you'd expect to see in any commander deck, while the other half support the specific themes of this deck.

Standard Modules

For every deck, I include a module for ramp, removal, and card draw, preferably filled with cards that align with the deck's theme rather than generic spells that could go in any deck.

• Ramp: These colors tend to be pretty weak in ramp, and knights provide few options for ramping or cost reduction. As a result, this suite is mostly fairly generic budget options for these colors.
• Removal: Knights do provide some interesting removal options unique to the tribe itself, and these comprise about half of this suite. The rest are simply value picks appropriate to the deck's color identity.
• Card Draw & Selection: If you have Syr Gwyn on the battlefield, you are not going to have a problem with card draw, but these other options can help keep the cards flowing otherwise. Almost all of them are unique to the knights/equipment theme.
• Fun: This module include both the commander and a variety of miscellaneous effects, including some neat combos that might come together every once in a while.

Subthematic Modules

The other half of these modules further contribute to the knights tribal and equipment themes.

1. Knights ("Go Wide") provide the most straightforward and essential component to this deck--a bunch of knights that boost and support each other. Cards here get knights onto the battlefield and care about other knights being on the battlefield. If you drew nothing but these cards, you'd do just fine.
2. Knights ("Utility") gets a little fancier, providing more knights that support the tribal theme of the deck just by being knights, but these knights have a variety of unique functions that help you gain value during the game.
3. The Equippers shift away from the knights a little, bringing in some other creatures that also care about equipment (and sometimes auras), helping you get your equipment onto the battlefield and attached to your creatures as quickly as possible.
4. The Equipment module of course consists of the equipment that boost your creatures and that so many of your creatures can tutor up, equip for free, etc.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.91
Tokens	Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders	Budget Commander - Tribal Cycle, EDH Ideas